This loser tried to pass me

Well, there is something called a break in period.

 

There is also something called "defensive driving". I'm not a fan of those who think a car duel is some kind of blood sport. Sheeeesh.

 

Drive it like you stole it, for 4 seconds, no big deal!

 

Love the phrase. LOL I still don't agree with the philosophy. I get on my wife's case when I'm on the phone with her and I hear her honking the horn at dumb nice person drivers. Some of these idiots will run you off the road and come at you with a tire iron or gun. It is simply not worth the risk. Let the idiot pass. Trust to karma that they will hit the next pot hole or miss a turn and end up off the road ... then you can chuckle to yourself as you cruise by. ;-)

Look, how many times do morons hit the horn the instant the light changes to green ... as if it were a drag race? Just ignore it. If you spend your life responding or reacting to morons there will be time for little else.

Beside that, doing what was described above is called "aggressive driving" and counts as two or three points, if you are spotted.

 

Its 7 MPH not MPG and by screwing up your car how did you teach him a lesson?

 

I might have been more impressed if instead of "screw it I'm not gonna let me pass me" you'd written "screw it I'm not gonna let him piss me off" - over the 50+ years I've been qualified to drive, I can't say I've ever treated driving as a competetive sport, but I think your name tells me all I need to know about you and your attitude.

 

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Who's the biggest loser, the one that loses their license first?

 

if pressing the pedal to the metal would hurt the car, the pedal wouldn't go that far. no worries.

funny, i'm a pothole avoider. and whenever i maneuver left or right on a single lane road to avoid a pot hole, some dufess behind me swerves the other way and guns it, thinking i'm turning off, even when there's nowhere to turn.

 

First thing's first...
You didn't mess anything up....well at least not with the car.

Priuses are mostly fly-by-wire.
That means that you can boot your car up, throw a brick on the accelerator pedal, go have a cup of coffee, and nothing bad will happen---at least with your car.
Maybe YOU should consider decaf.
There's no mechanical link between you and the engine room.
You can literally "throw it into park" while driving down the interstate, and the car will laugh at you in Priuseese. (it will sound like beeps to you.)
That's because when you push the "P" button....or step on the accelerator....or put it in PWR mode you're not actually "doing" anything.....but rather you're making a request.
If the Prius doesn't want to go into reverse?
It won't.

There are, however, limits to what engineers can do with cars.
The Prius isn't able to stop drivers from being idiots, because engineers just aren't that talented yet.

That's why we have Highway Patrol Officers.

If "the other guy" was "the loser" as the Donald would say, then my advice would be to let El Fato catch up with him or her.
Sooner or later they will get a ticket...or get in a wreck---probably hurting somebody who is just trying to get to work, or they will suffer poor fuel economy.

Don't BE the loser.

Good Luck!

 

That's a bit crazy, IMO. Have you heard of "red line"? It IS possible to run an engine over red line and destroy the engine. That is why some of us lament the lack of tachometer in the Prius.

 

yes, but i'm not sure prius will allow that. do you have any data?

 

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Oh, I hear 'ya. I think the first qualification for a driver's license in MD is to have an IQ below room temperature. Seriously, I know about awful driver's. My introduction to driving on the East Coast was about a week after I got here. Someone was BACKING UP on the freeway because he had missed his exit. !!! If you miss the exit, your penance for inattention is to get off at the next one, no matter how far, and come on back. Good Grief. I used to ride a motorcycle in CA, and the first time I took it out on MD roads I came home and garaged it until I could sell it. No way I'm going to ride out here.

I also suffer from some road rage, which I have learned to detect and manage early. These days I signal a lane change, but ONLY after I see that I can do it and have ALREADY started the change. If not, the idiot behind the open space will accelerate to close it up and freeze me out. Sometimes you just have to take a breath, let it out, and go to your happy place. Either that, or become part of the problem.

Yes, the lack of any claim by Toyota that the Prius engine is different than every other engine I've heard of. I'm quite sure that there is enough instrumentation available to act as a over rev governor, but no one I've heard of says they have implemented such a system.

 

Why would you need a tachometer in a CVT equipped car?
Yeah....OK....so I know it's not "really" a cvt but that's how it acts.

What, exactly, are you supposed to do with the information that the tachometer supplies you with?
Downshift?

The Prius doesn't have a "red line" because it's really really tough to over-rev the motor.
There's no mechanical link between the accelerator pedal and the throttle body, and even if you could reach into the engine compartment and yank open the TB, the engine would still not over-rev.
The Prius is rev-limited but the driver doesn't have any rudder input in this process.

 

a scan gauge will show rpm, no?

 

Mike, if you own a Prius, you can learn all kinds of worthwhile stuff by reading your New Car Features Manual on techinfo.toyota.com. The major ones are for each new model, so yours would be the 2004 edition.

The throttle control in the Prius is entirely by wire. The throttle plate never, ever assumes any position that isn't exactly where the computers want it to be.

Try to overrev your engine some time. Just try it. You can watch the RPMs with any OBD-II scantool (even the most generic ones, because RPM is one of the generic OBDII values).

-Chap

 

Yes

 

Well, upshift if anything. No, ease off on the gas. Which is what the OP should have done rather than racing the idiot full bore to prove a point.

Good to hear. All I can say is that I still drive by ear. If the engine sounds as if it is going too fast, I throttle back. I can afford getting there a few minutes later ... not so much a new engine.




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Yeah, if you have one connected and all of that hoo-ha. I don't. It would be super nice to add one to the HUD.